The Disturbing Truth About Sudan's Deadly Crisis

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00:00The vicious fighting in Sudan has taken a new, disturbing turn.

00:07This week, the Sudanese Armed Forces lost control of a key province to a rival paramilitary group,

00:13as reports of harrowing atrocities continue to emerge.

00:16The vicious fighting, which has been raging for over 30 months,

00:20has left over 40,000 people dead, bringing about claims of genocide,

00:24and 14 million more displaced.

00:27The result is one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.

00:30Here's everything you need to know.

00:32The conflict in Sudan is between two main forces,

00:35the Sudanese Military and the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF.

00:40The RSF is a paramilitary group, an unofficial army,

00:43which operates outside a country's legitimate military,

00:46but oftentimes uses similar training, tactics, and equipment.

00:50This week, the RSF completed its 18-month siege of the provincial capital of El-Fashur.

00:55The military's last stronghold in Sudan's Darfur region.

00:59Harrowing videos have since flooded social media,

01:02purporting to show RSF troops killing and beating citizens attempting to flee El-Fashur.

01:07According to the UN Sudan coordinator,

01:09it received credible reports of sexual violence towards women and young girls,

01:13as well as summary executions, which are extrajudicial killings that occur without a proper legal trial.

01:18Suspicions of executions further grew after chilling satellite images emerged,

01:22showing large patches of discolored ground around clustered objects.

01:26At an El-Fashur hospital, over 400 people were reportedly killed.

01:30The governor of Darfur shared a video that purports to show RSF fighters roaming the hospital as bodies lay on the floor.

01:37The Sudanese military and the RSF had previously worked together in staging a coup in Sudan in 2021,

01:44taking control of the country.

01:46However, the leaders of the two groups,

01:48General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan of the Armed Forces

01:51and General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalow of the RSF,

01:54had stark disagreements about the new direction of the country.

01:58The tensions culminated in April of 2023,

02:01when violence between the two groups erupted in the capital city of Khartoum

02:05after RSF troops were deployed around the country.

02:08In the two and a half years of subsequent fighting,

02:10the two groups have been warring to take control over capital cities and provinces,

02:14leaving thousands dead, millions displaced,

02:17and parts of the country plunged into famine.

02:20The RSF has been accused of committing heinous atrocities,

02:23such as ethnic cleansing of the ethnically mixed region of Darfur

02:26to build an Arab-ruled domain.

02:29In one of the Biden administration's last acts,

02:31former Secretary of State Anthony Blinken released a statement

02:35accusing the RSF of committing genocide.

02:38The RSF and allied militias have systematically murdered men and boys,

02:43even infants, on an ethnic basis,

02:45and deliberately targeted women and girls from certain ethnic groups

02:48for rape and other forms of brutal sexual violence.

02:51Those same militias have targeted fleeing civilians,

02:54murdering innocent people escaping conflict,

02:57and prevented remaining civilians from accessing life-saving supplies.

03:02Based on this information,

03:03I have now concluded that members of the RSF and allied militias

03:06have committed genocide in Sudan, Blinken wrote.

03:09In a video statement released by Mohamed Hamdan Degallo

03:12following the capture of El Fasher,

03:14the RSF leader vowed to investigate any violations by his soldiers in the city.

03:19But now this is the view of the Fasher,

03:21the fact that the pattern continues in the moment

03:23is to come out soon.

03:25It's the fact that any citizen or a citizen

03:26or an advocate

03:29can take criminalodox or court

03:32can make防止 of their limits

03:33against any human being.

03:35Any human being is to come out soon

03:37will be able to do it before

03:39and the people will be part of the United States

03:41and will be part of the nation of Sudan

03:42but it is to come out soon.

03:43Over a decade ago, the nation of Sudan split into the countries of Sudan and South Sudan

03:50following a years-long civil war.

03:52As the region of Darfur falls into the hands of the RSF, fears are growing that Africa's

03:57third-largest nation will experience yet another split.

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